Hospital inpatient programs are treatment facilities for substance abuse, that provide a private and medical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program can be a beneficial alternative for someone that has a co-occurring mental health disorder, and for someone with other medical requirements which ought to be overseen by medical professionals. Individuals who partake in such a program can usually benefit from mental health services as well as dealing with issues who have prompted their drug use. Very often people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate as opposed to efficiently responding to their disorder. Professional treatment counselors in the hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so that they no longer find the need to use drugs and alcohol like this, and instead create solutions to make their mental health issue more manageable. Medication is often used to do this, however, this isn't the solution needed in every case. As an example, even subtle environmental adjustments to one's life can decrease stress and put a new perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse alcohol or drugs. Therapy in a hospital inpatient program will help expose such problems so they can be handled.