Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clients who are currently taking part in drug and alcohol rehab centers in Meacham and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. often find it more beneficial to rehab individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more successful to tackle the problem of drug addiction directly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehab will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug treatment frequently don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and out of the court system completely.