Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who are currently taking part in alcohol and drug rehab programs in Valdese and in the USA. Court systems around the country are finding it more effective to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It is proven to be more effective to address the trouble of drug or alcohol addiction directly, than to enforce these sorts of penalties. The majority of individuals who do not wind up in alcohol and drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehabilitation generally don't make the same mistakes and have a better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system entirely.