Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who take part in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Gerlach, Nevada and across the nation. Court systems in the country often find it more effective to rehabilitate men and women who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, instead of punishing them in vain with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to address the trouble of drug or alcohol addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehab will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation often don't make the same mistakes and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system for good.