Criminal justice clients in Morganton, North Carolina often end up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities because they were found guilty of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were dealing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Some judges put these criminal persons into the drug and alcohol treatment system mainly due to the fact that they consider that treating them will be more effective for society and for the individual, rather than putting them in jail with no rehab at all. This has been verified to be extremely successful not only in helping and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Morganton, North Carolina, but also in helping them remain abstinent and in a lot of cases out of the criminal justice system for good.