Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Coxs Creek and across the nation. Judicial systems in the country often find it more effective to treat people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to tackle the issue of addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehab will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.