Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off drug or alcohol use, or dangerous sexual conduct due to abusing drugs could possibly have caused the person to contract the illness. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their substance abuse or as a pre-existing problem before their drug use issue, often require rehabilitation services tailor-made to meet their specific needs and problems. A few of these challenges are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS almost never care for themselves and take the appropriate medicines they need to maintain their own health. Therefore, they arrive to treatment in very poor physical shape and this will have to be handled as a priority whilst addressing other crucial issues. Besides the obvious requirement to supply medical solutions while in rehabilitation, individuals with HIV/AIDS should also deal with more deeply rooted problems which brought about their alcohol or drug use. Very often, people have circumstances within their lives which are purely environmental which may have caused them to use drugs or alcohol, such as oppressive conditions in their lives or detrimental relationships. These are the issues which rehab counselors will concentrate on in HIV/AIDS treatment services.