Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off substance abuse, or risky sexual behavior due to drug use could have caused the individual to contract the illness. People who have HIV/AIDS, either due to their drug use or as a pre-existing problem before their substance abuse problem, frequently require rehab services tailored to fulfill their specific demands and problems. Many of these challenges are physical in nature, because of the fact that drug users with HIV/AIDS rarely look after themselves and take the appropriate medicines they need to maintain their health. Therefore, these individuals arrive to rehabilitation in very poor health and this will have to be handled as a priority while also dealing with other critical issues. Besides the obvious necessity to provide medical solutions during rehab, those that have HIV/AIDS also have to tackle more deeply rooted problems which prompted their alcohol or drug use. Very often, people have conditions in their lives that happen to be strictly environmental which may have caused them to use alcohol or drugs, such as oppressive situations within their lives or negative relationships. These are the issues which rehab professionals will concentrate on in HIV/AIDS rehab services.