Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs in Vergennes, Vermont and across the nation. Court systems around the country are finding it more helpful to rehab individuals who have wound up in the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more effective to tackle the problem of addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug and alcohol rehab will frequently turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehab often don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying sober and away from the court system completely.