Treating persons who are addicted to drugs and have found their way into the criminal justice system has proven to be a successful method of eliminating future drug related offenses by those that do receive treatment. For criminal justice clients in Shiner, Texas that do agree to take part in treatment in drug and alcohol treatment centers, even against one's will as is often ordered by the judge, these clients have a much better opportunity of addressing the root of the issue so that they can stay abstinent and away from being implicated in drug related crimes. The costs to society having to do with these drug related criminal offenses is also impacted beneficially when criminal justice clients become rehabbed in drug and alcohol treatment centers in Shiner, Texas in lieu of jail time or other penalties.