Rehabilitating men and women who are addicted and dependent to drugs or alcohol and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven a successful method of curbing future drug related offenses for people who do take advantage of treatment programs. For criminal justice clients in North Port, Florida that do agree to take part in treatment in drug rehabilitation centers, even against one's will as is sometimes ordered by the judge, these clients have a much better opportunity of handling the root of the issue so that they can stay off of drugs and off of the streets drug related criminal activity. The costs to society having to do with these drug related criminal offenses is also affected beneficially when criminal justice clients become rehabilitated in drug and alcohol rehab centers in North Port, Florida instead of incarceration or other harsh punishment.