Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in alcohol and drug rehab programs in Gray, Maine and in the USA. Judges in the U.S. are finding it more effective to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more helpful to tackle the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. Most individuals who do not end up in drug and alcohol treatment will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system completely.