Criminal justice clients in San Diego, CA. often end up in alcohol and drug treatment programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were dealing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many courts put these convicted individuals into the alcohol and drug rehab system because they feel that treating them is more effective for society and for the person, rather than putting them behind bars with no treatment at all. This has been established to be incredibly successful not only in helping and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in San Diego, California, but also in helping them stay abstinent and in a number of instances out of the criminal justice system permanently.