Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who take part in drug treatment programs in West Lake Hills and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more effective to treat people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the issue of drug or alcohol addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. The majority of who do not end up in drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't make the same mistakes and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.