Criminal justice clients in Nelson, NH. make their way into drug and alcohol treatment facilities because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Many courts put these convicted individuals into the drug rehab system because they believe that rehabilitating these individuals will be more productive for society and for the individual, rather than sending them in jail with no rehab at all. This has been established to be quite effective not only in helping and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Nelson, NH., but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of instances away from the criminal justice system once and for all.