Hospital inpatient programs are treatment facilities for drug abuse, that provide a private and medical setting for people in recovery. A hospital inpatient program is often a beneficial alternative for someone that has a co-occurring mental health disorder, and someone with other medical needs which ought to be overseen by medical experts. Individuals who partake in that program can benefit from mental health services as well as addressing issues who have prompted their substance abuse. Usually individuals with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate as opposed to efficiently responding to their problem. Professional treatment counselors in the hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn the tide so that they will no longer find the need to use alcohol and drugs this way, and instead develop solutions 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 changes in one's life can alleviate stress and place a new perspective on things so the individual doesn't feel compelled to abuse drugs or alcohol. Therapy inside a hospital inpatient program can help reveal such problems so they can be handled.