Rehabilitating persons who are addicted to drugs and have ended up in the criminal justice system has proven a productive method of curbing future drug related crimes by those who do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Canton, Mississippi who do partake in drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities, even against one's will as is sometimes court ordered, these persons have a far better opportunity of addressing the root of the problem so that they can stay abstinent and off of the streets drug related criminal acts. The costs to the criminal justice system related to these drug related criminal offenses is also impacted positively when criminal justice clients become helped in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Canton, Mississippi instead of jail time or other penalties.