Rehabilitating individuals who are addicted to drugs or alcohol and have found their way into the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of preventing future drug related criminal offenses for people that do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Fairhaven, Massachusetts who do take part in in drug treatment programs, even against one's will as is sometimes ordered by the court, these clients have a significantly better shot of handling the root of the problem so that they can stay abstinent and off of being implicated in drug related criminal acts. The costs to society related to these drug related criminal offenses is also affected positively when criminal justice clients are rehabilitated in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Fairhaven, Massachusetts instead of incarceration or other penalties.