Criminal justice clients in Palm Beach, FL. often end up in drug and alcohol treatment programs because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many judges put these types of persons into the alcohol and drug treatment system mainly due to the fact that they consider that treating these persons is more productive for society and for the person, rather than putting them in prison with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be very successful not only in helping and rehabilitating this type of client in Palm Beach, FL., but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of situations away from the criminal justice system once and for all.