Treating persons who are addicted to drugs and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of preventing future drug related criminal offenses those offenders that do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Mellette, South Dakota who do agree to take part in treatment in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs, even un-voluntarily as is sometimes ordered by the judge, these persons have a much better chance at addressing the root of the problem so that they can stay sober and off of being implicated in drug related criminal activity. The costs to the criminal justice system having to do with these drug related offenses is also impacted beneficially when criminal justice clients become rehabilitated in drug rehabilitation facilities in Mellette, South Dakota in lieu of incarceration or other harsh punishment.