Hospital inpatient programs are rehab programs for drug abuse, which give an exclusive and clinical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program may be a beneficial option for someone who has a co-occurring mental health disorder, and for someone with other medical needs which might need to be overseen by medical experts. People who partake in such a program can benefit from mental health services as well as dealing with issues which may have prompted their drug use. Very often people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate as an alternative to effectively responding to their problem. Professional rehabilitation counselors in a hospital inpatient program will help individuals turn the tide so that they will no longer find the need to use drugs and alcohol like this, and instead create solutions to make their mental health disorder more manageable. Medicine is often used to accomplish this, however, this isn't the solution needed in all cases. By way of example, even slight environmental changes in 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 the hospital inpatient program can help reveal such issues so they can be handled.