Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who take part in alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities in Lubec, Maine and in the USA. Court systems around the country often find it more beneficial to treat men and women who have wound up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than punishing them in vain with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more effective to address the trouble of addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug rehab will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehab generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system completely.