Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off drug or alcohol use, or dangerous sexual conduct due to drug use may have caused the person to contract the disease. People who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their substance abuse or as a pre-existing condition prior to their drug use issue, typically require treatment services tailor-made to satisfy their specific demands and problems. Some of these challenges are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS rarely look after themselves and take the proper medications they need to preserve their own health. Consequently, they arrive to treatment in ibad health and this will have to be addressed as a priority while dealing with other important issues. Besides the obvious necessity to offer medical services during treatment, individuals with HIV/AIDS will also need to tackle more deeply rooted problems which prompted their drug or alcohol use. Usually, people have circumstances within their lives that are purely environmental which may have caused them to turn to drugs or alcohol, like oppressive circumstances in their lives or negative relationships. These are the issues which rehabilitation professionals will concentrate on as part of HIV/AIDS rehabilitation services.