Hospital inpatient programs are treatment facilities for drug abuse, which give a private and clinical setting for those in recovery. A hospital inpatient program may be a beneficial option for someone that has a co-occurring mental health disorder, or someone with other medical needs which ought to be overseen by experts. Those who partake in this program may benefit from mental health services while also addressing issues which may have prompted their drug abuse. Very often those that have a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate instead of efficiently responding to their disorder. Professional rehabilitation counselors within a hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so they will no longer find the necessity 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 all cases. As an example, even subtle environmental modifications in one's life can decrease stress and put a new perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse drugs or alcohol. Therapy within a hospital inpatient program can help expose such issues so they can be resolved.