Treating men and women who are addicted and dependent to drugs and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of preventing repeat drug related crimes those offenders who do receive treatment. For criminal justice clients in Kealakekua that do partake in drug rehabilitation programs, even if not of their own choice as is occasionally court ordered, these persons have a much better opportunity of handling the root of the problem so that they can remain sober and off of being implicated in drug related criminal activity. The costs to the criminal justice system associated with these drug related offenses is also impacted beneficially when criminal justice clients become rehabilitated in drug rehab centers in Kealakekua instead of incarceration or other penalties.