Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who are currently taking part in drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Embudo, New Mexico and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to treat people who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to address the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than invoke such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug rehabilitation will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehab generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at remaining sober and away from the court system entirely.