Treating persons who are addicted and dependent to drugs and/or alcohol and have ended up in the criminal justice system has proven effective in preventing future drug related crimes for individuals that do take advantage of treatment programs. For criminal justice clients in Butte, MT. that do partake in drug rehabilitation programs, even un-voluntarily as is often ordered by the court, these individuals have a much better opportunity of dealing with the root of the problem so that they can stay abstinent and off of being implicated in drug related criminal acts. The costs to the criminal justice system associated with these drug related criminal offenses is also impacted positively when criminal justice clients become rehabbed in drug treatment centers in Butte, MT. instead of incarceration or other penalties.