Rehabilitating individuals who are addicted and dependent to drugs and/or alcohol and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven to be effective in eliminating repeat drug related crimes by those that do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Nome who do agree to take part in treatment in alcohol and drug treatment centers, even un-voluntarily as is sometimes ordered by the court, these persons have a significantly better opportunity of handling the root of the issue 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 offenses is also affected positively when criminal justice clients turn out to be rehabbed in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Nome in lieu of incarceration or other penalties.