Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who take part in drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Edna Bay and across the nation. Judicial systems in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to rehabilitate men and women who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, instead of punishing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the problem of addiction more straightforwardly, rather than enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in alcohol and drug treatment will typically wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system completely.