Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Spurger and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to rehabilitate people who have wound up in the court system for drug related crimes, instead of punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to deal with the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than enforce such penalties. Most individuals who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehab generally don't make the same mistakes and have a better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system completely.