Criminal justice clients in Nordland, WA. often end up in drug rehab facilities due to the fact 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 criminal individuals into the drug treatment system because they feel that rehabilitating them is more helpful for society and for the individual, rather than sending them behind bars with no rehab at all. This has been verified to be very successful not only in helping and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Nordland, WA., but also in keeping them off of drugs and in many situations out of the criminal justice system for good.