Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may trigger substance abuse, or dangerous sexual behavior as a result of substance abuse could have caused the individual to contract the sickness. Individuals who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their drug abuse or as a pre-existing condition before their drug abuse problem, often require rehabilitation services tailored in order to meet their specific demands and problems. Many of these challenges are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS hardly ever take care of themselves and take the proper medicines they need to preserve their own health. Therefore, they arrive to rehab in very poor health and this will have to be addressed as a priority while addressing other crucial issues. Apart from the obvious necessity to offer medical services whilst in rehab, individuals with HIV/AIDS will also need to tackle deeper problems which prompted their alcohol or drug use. Very often, individuals have circumstances in their lives which are purely environmental which may have triggered them to use drugs or alcohol, including oppressive conditions within their lives or damaging relationships. These are the issues which treatment counselors will give attention to as part of HIV/AIDS rehabilitation services.