Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off substance abuse, or dangerous sexual conduct due to substance abuse could have caused the individual to contract the illness. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their drug abuse or as a pre-existing condition before their drug use issue, typically require rehabilitation services tailored in order to meet their particular demands and challenges. Many of these challenges are physical in nature, because of the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS rarely care for themselves and take the appropriate medicines they need to maintain their own health. Because of this, they arrive to rehab in ibad health and this will have to be addressed as a priority while dealing with other critical concerns. Besides the obvious necessity to provide medical solutions while in rehabilitation, people who have HIV/AIDS must also deal with deeper issues which brought about their alcohol or drug use. Very often, people have circumstances in their lives that are purely environmental which may have caused them to use drugs or alcohol, such as oppressive circumstances in their lives or damaging relationships. These are the issues which rehab counselors will concentrate on in HIV/AIDS treatment services.