Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may trigger drug or alcohol use, or dangerous sexual behavior because of abusing drugs could have caused the person to contract the disease. People who have HIV/AIDS, either as a result of their drug use or as a pre-existing condition prior to their drug use problem, frequently require treatment services tailor-made in order to meet their specific demands and challenges. Some of these problems are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS rarely care for themselves and take the proper medicines they need to maintain their own health. Because of this, they arrive to rehabilitation in very poor physical shape and this will have to be addressed as a priority while dealing with other important concerns. Apart from the obvious requirement to deliver medical services whilst in treatment, people with HIV/AIDS also have to deal with more deeply rooted issues which prompted their alcohol or drug use. Frequently, people have circumstances within their lives that happen to be purely environmental which may have caused them to use alcohol or drugs, such as oppressive conditions in their lives or damaging relationships. These are the issues which treatment counselors will give attention to in HIV/AIDS rehab services.