Hospital inpatient programs are treatment centers for substance abuse, which offer an exclusive and medical setting for people 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 needs which may need to be overseen by medical experts. Those who partake in this program can benefit from mental health services as well as addressing issues which may have prompted their drug use. Usually people who have a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate instead of efficiently responding to their problem. Professional treatment counselors inside a hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn things around so that they will no longer find the necessity to use drugs and alcohol like this, and instead create methods to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medicine is often used to accomplish this, but this isn't the answer needed in all cases. As an example, even slight environmental changes in one's life can alleviate stress and put a fresh perspective on things so that the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse alcohol or drugs. Therapy in the hospital inpatient program can help reveal such issues so they can be resolved.