Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clients who take part in drug treatment programs in Picacho, New Mexico and across the nation. Court systems around the country often find it more effective to rehabilitate men and women who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It is proven to be more effective to handle the problem of drug addiction directly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in alcohol and drug rehab will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at remaining abstinent and out of the court system entirely.