Rehabilitating persons who are addicted and dependent to drugs or alcohol and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of preventing repeat drug related crimes by those that do receive treatment. For criminal justice clients in Scotts, North Carolina who do agree to take part in treatment in drug and alcohol rehab centers, even against one's will as is sometimes ordered by the court, these persons have a significantly better chance at addressing the crux of the problem so that they can stay abstinent and away from being implicated in drug related criminal acts. The costs to the criminal justice system related to these drug related offenses is also affected beneficially when criminal justice clients are rehabilitated in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Scotts, North Carolina instead of incarceration or other penalties.