Fairfax County Times: ARCpoint Labs Reports Higher Drug Use in Fairfax County

"The percentage of U.S. workers who tested positive for using drugs hit a 10-year high in 2015, according to an analysis conducted by the Madison, N.J.-based diagnostic information provider Quest Diagnostics."

ARCpoint Labs, a national drug, alcohol, DNA and steroid testing provider, contributed drug test results to Quest Diagnostics’ study. Franchisee, Jon Helm says the findings echo what he has observed at work over the past two years.

“I have seen recently, both in terms of companies and the community, drug use on the rise really over the last couple of years,” Helm said. “We’ve been doing this since March 2010, but it seems to me that we’re getting more positive testing than I’ve seen before.”

It was reported, Fairfax County students reported more LSD, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin use within the past month than their national peers.

“I think parents hesitate to test their children, because they don’t want to accuse them or anything like that,” Helm said. “But when you read about the deaths, you wonder what happened before that…It just seems like, overall, in society, we need to be a little more cognizant and spend more time observing the situation.”