Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may trigger drug or alcohol use, or dangerous sexual behavior because of drug abuse may have caused the individual to contract the disease. People who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their drug use or as a pre-existing condition before their drug abuse problem, frequently require rehabilitation services tailored to meet their particular demands and challenges. A few of these challenges are physical in nature, because of the fact that drug users with HIV/AIDS hardly ever care for themselves and take the proper medications they need to preserve their own health. Therefore, these individuals arrive to treatment in very poor physical shape and this will have to be handled as a priority while also dealing with other important issues. Apart from the obvious requirement to supply medical solutions while in rehab, people who have HIV/AIDS also have to deal with deeper problems which prompted their drug or alcohol use. Frequently, individuals have circumstances within their lives that are purely environmental which may have caused them to use alcohol or drugs, such as oppressive conditions in their lives or detrimental relationships. These are the issues which treatment counselors will focus on in HIV/AIDS rehabilitation services.