Hospital inpatient programs are treatment facilities for substance abuse, which offer an exclusive and medical setting for people in recovery. A hospital inpatient program might be a beneficial choice for someone who has a co-occurring mental health issue, or for someone with other medical requirements which may need to be overseen by medical experts. Those who partake in that program can usually benefit from mental health services while also dealing with issues which may have prompted their drug use. Frequently people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate instead of efficiently addressing their disorder. Professional rehab counselors in the hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so they will no longer find the necessity to use alcohol and drugs like this, and instead develop methods to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medication is often used to accomplish this, but this isn't the solution needed in every case. For example, even slight environmental changes in one's life can relieve stress and put a new perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse drugs or alcohol. Therapy in a hospital inpatient program will help expose such issues so they can be handled.