Being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS may set off drug use, or risky sexual conduct because of substance abuse might have caused the individual to contract the illness. People who have HIV/AIDS, either on account of their substance abuse or as a pre-existing condition before their drug use issue, typically require treatment services tailor-made to meet their specific demands and problems. Some of these problems are physical in nature, due to the fact that substance abusers with HIV/AIDS rarely take care of themselves and take the appropriate medications they need to preserve their own health. Consequently, these individuals arrive to rehab in very poor health and this will have to be handled as a priority while addressing other critical concerns. Besides the obvious necessity to offer medical solutions during rehabilitation, people with HIV/AIDS also have to address deeper problems which brought about their drug or alcohol use. Often, individuals have circumstances within their lives that are purely environmental which may have caused them to use drugs or alcohol, like oppressive situations within their lives or detrimental relationships. These are the issues which rehab professionals will give attention to in HIV/AIDS treatment services.