Treating persons who are addicted to drugs or alcohol and have landed somewhere in the criminal justice system has proven effective in curbing future drug related offenses by those that do become rehabilitated. For criminal justice clients in Santa Monica, California that do take part in in drug and alcohol rehab programs, even un-voluntarily as is occasionally ordered by the court, these persons have a much better opportunity of handling the root of the issue so that they can stay sober and off of being implicated in drug related criminal activity. The costs to society having to do with these drug related offenses is also affected beneficially when criminal justice clients become helped in drug rehab centers in Santa Monica in lieu of incarceration or other penalties.