Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off drug or alcohol use, or risky sexual behavior due to drug abuse might have caused to contract the illness. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either because of their drug use or as a pre-existing condition prior to their drug abuse issue, often require rehabilitation services tailored to meet their specific needs and challenges. Some of these challenges are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS rarely care for themselves and take the proper medicines they need to preserve their health. Therefore, these individuals arrive to rehabilitation in very poor health and this will have to be handled as a priority while also addressing other important issues. Apart from the obvious requirement to deliver medical solutions while in rehab, people with HIV/AIDS must also address more deeply rooted problems which brought about their alcohol or drug use. Often, people have situations within their lives which are strictly environmental which may have triggered them to use alcohol or drugs, such as oppressive circumstances in their lives or damaging relationships. These are the issues which rehab counselors will give attention to in HIV/AIDS rehab services.