Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may trigger drug or alcohol use, or risky sexual conduct because of drug use may have caused the individual to contract the disease. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their drug abuse or as a pre-existing problem prior to their drug abuse issue, typically require rehabilitation services tailor-made to satisfy their specific needs and challenges. A few of these problems are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS very rarely look after themselves and take the proper medicines they need to maintain their own health. As a result, they arrive to treatment in very poor physical shape and this will have to be handled as a priority whilst dealing with other important issues. Besides the obvious necessity to provide medical services while in rehabilitation, individuals with HIV/AIDS will also need to tackle more deeply rooted problems which prompted their drug or alcohol use. Very often, people have situations in their lives that are strictly environmental which may have caused them to use drugs or alcohol, such as oppressive situations within their lives or damaging relationships. These are the issues which rehab counselors will give attention to in HIV/AIDS rehab services.