Hospital inpatient programs are rehab facilities for drug abuse, which provide a private and clinical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program can be a beneficial option for someone who has a co-occurring mental health disorder, and for someone with other medical needs which may need to be overseen by medical professionals. Those who partake in such a program can benefit from mental health services as well as dealing with issues who have prompted their drug abuse. Very often people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use drugs or alcohol to self medicate rather than effectively responding to their disorder. Professional rehabilitation counselors in the hospital inpatient program can help individuals turn things around so they will no longer find the necessity to use drugs and alcohol in this way, and instead develop ways to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Prescription medication is often used to accomplish this, but this isn't the answer needed in all cases. By way of example, even subtle environmental adjustments to 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 can help reveal such problems so they can be handled.