Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may trigger drug or alcohol use, or dangerous sexual behavior as a result of abusing drugs could have caused to contract the disease. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either as a result of their drug abuse or as a pre-existing condition before their drug abuse issue, typically require treatment services tailor-made to meet their specific demands and challenges. Some challenges are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS hardly ever care for themselves and take the appropriate medicines they need to preserve their own health. As a result, they arrive to rehab in very poor physical shape and this will have to be handled as a priority while dealing with other important issues. Besides the obvious requirement to offer medical services whilst in rehab, people who have HIV/AIDS must also tackle more deeply rooted issues which brought about their alcohol or drug use. Usually, people have circumstances in their lives which are purely environmental which may have triggered them to turn to drugs or alcohol, like oppressive situations within their lives or detrimental relationships. These are the issues which treatment professionals will give attention to in HIV/AIDS treatment services.