Smoking banned at health complex | The change affects the county’s Behavioral Health Services campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Smoking banned at health complex | The change affects the county’s Behavioral Health Services campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Effective Monday, smokers “will have to walk clear out beyond our parking lot to the edge of our property” and step off the property to smoke on the public sidewalk, he said.

The agency provides mental health counseling and drug-related services and treatment for children, families and adults.

Plenty of the agency’s clients smoke, as do a dwindling number of employees, Levine said.

“Traditionally, clients in the mental health system are notorious smokers, and it is often the case that they smoke because it helps to alleviate some of the side effects of the psychiatric medications they are taking,” Levine said. “There are lots of our clients who do smoke out there.”

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