Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who take part in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Woodmere, New York and across the nation. Judicial systems around the country often find it more advantageous to rehab people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to address the issue of addiction directly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. Most who do not make their way to drug rehabilitation will frequently wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation frequently don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at remaining sober and away from the court system for good.