Hospital inpatient programs are rehab facilities for substance abuse, which offer a private and medical setting for individuals 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 needs which might need to be overseen by experts. Those who partake in this program can be helped by mental health services while addressing issues who have prompted their substance abuse. Very often people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use drugs or alcohol to self medicate rather than efficiently addressing their disorder. Professional treatment counselors in a hospital inpatient program can help individuals turn things around so that they will no longer find the need to use drugs and alcohol in this way, and instead create methods to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medicine is often used to achieve this, however, this isn't the solution needed in every case. By way of example, even subtle environmental changes in one's life can decrease stress and place a fresh perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse alcohol or drugs. Counselling within a hospital inpatient program will help reveal such problems so they can be handled.