Hospital inpatient programs are treatment centers for substance abuse, that provide an exclusive and medical setting for people in recovery. A hospital inpatient program can be a beneficial alternative for someone who has a co-occurring mental health disorder, or for someone with other medical requirements which ought to be overseen by doctors. Folks who partake in that program can be helped by mental health services as well as dealing with issues who have prompted their substance abuse. Very often people who have a co-occurring mental health disorders use drugs or alcohol to self medicate rather than effectively responding to their problem. Professional rehab counselors in a hospital inpatient program can help individuals turn the tide so they not find the need to use alcohol and drugs in this way, and instead create ways to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medication is often used to accomplish this, however, this isn't the answer needed in every case. For example, even slight environmental modifications in one's life can decrease stress and put a fresh perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse alcohol or drugs. Counselling within a hospital inpatient program can help expose such problems so they can be resolved.