Hospital inpatient programs are rehab programs for substance abuse, that provide an exclusive and clinical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program is often a beneficial selection for someone who has a co-occurring mental health disorder, and for someone with other medical requirements which should be overseen by experts. Those who partake in such a program can benefit from mental health services while dealing with issues who have prompted their drug abuse. Very often those that have a co-occurring mental health disorders use drugs or alcohol to self medicate instead of effectively addressing their disorder. Professional rehabilitation counselors in the hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn the tide so that they will no longer find the necessity to use alcohol and drugs like this, and instead create solutions to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Prescription medication is often used to accomplish this, but this isn't the answer needed in every case. For example, even subtle environmental modifications in one's life can alleviate stress and put a new perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse drugs or alcohol. Counselling within a hospital inpatient program will help expose such problems so they can be handled.