Hospital inpatient programs are rehabilitation programs for substance abuse, that provide a private and clinical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program may be a beneficial option for someone who has a co-occurring mental health issue, or someone with other medical requirements which ought to be overseen by experts. Those who partake in that program can be helped by mental health services while also dealing with issues who have prompted their drug abuse. Often people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate as an alternative to effectively addressing their problem. Professional rehabilitation counselors within a hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so that they will no longer find the need to use drugs and alcohol like this, and instead create solutions to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medicine is often used to do this, however this isn't the solution needed in every case. For example, even slight environmental changes in one's life can decrease stress and put a fresh perspective on things so the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse alcohol or drugs. Therapy in the hospital inpatient program can help expose such problems so they can be handled.