Hospital inpatient programs are treatment centers for substance abuse, which offer an exclusive and medical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program may be a beneficial option for someone who has a co-occurring mental health disorder, or someone with other medical requirements which should be overseen by medical experts. Those who partake in this program may benefit from mental health services while also dealing with issues who have prompted their drug abuse. Usually those that have a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate as opposed to effectively addressing their disorder. Professional treatment counselors in the hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so they not find the necessity to use alcohol and drugs like this, and instead create methods to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medication is often used to do this, but this isn't the solution needed in every case. For instance, even slight environmental modifications in one's life can alleviate stress and put a new perspective on things so the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse drugs or alcohol. Therapy in a hospital inpatient program will help reveal such problems so they can be handled.