Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Elberta, Alabama and in the USA. Judicial systems in the country are finding it more helpful to rehabilitate individuals who have wound up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more helpful to address the trouble of drug addiction more straightforwardly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug rehabilitation will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.