Criminal justice clients in Mineral Ridge, OH. make their way into alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were under the influence of drugs. Many judges put these types of individuals into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation system because they consider that rehabilitating them will be more effective for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than placing them behind bars with no rehabilitation at all. This has been verified to be quite workable not only in treating and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Mineral Ridge, OH., but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of instances out of the criminal justice system permanently.