Hospital inpatient programs are treatment facilities for substance abuse, which provide an exclusive and medical setting for individuals in recovery. A hospital inpatient program may be a beneficial option for somebody that has a co-occurring mental health issue, and someone with other medical needs which should be overseen by medical experts. People who partake in that program can be helped by mental health services while also addressing issues which may have prompted their drug abuse. Usually people with a co-occurring mental health disorders use alcohol or drugs to self medicate instead of 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 necessity to use drugs and alcohol in this way, and instead create 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 every case. By way of example, even slight 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 alcohol or drugs. Therapy in a hospital inpatient program can help expose such problems so they can be handled.