Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who take part in drug treatment programs in Portage, Maine and in the USA. Judges in the U.S. are finding it more beneficial to treat individuals who have ended up in the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to deal with the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not make their way to drug and alcohol treatment will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.