Drug and alcohol abuse are problems that face people across the nation. There is no place that has not felt the individual and societal effects of these kinds of addiction. Different places have tried different systems for dealing with drug and alcohol abuse. Some jurisdictions respond by criminalizing drug and alcohol use, some have tried to ban drugs or alcohol completely, and some have tried to staunch the problem by offering affordable and readily available rehabilitation programs for drug and alcohol addiction. California falls into this latter category. In fact,