"Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he
should turn from his ways and live?" (Ezek. 18:23)
"Alan Wiggins joined up with the Padres in 1979, and quickly became a star player. In his first
season with the Padres he set the second-best record for base steals in baseball history. The next
year he led his league in steals. But then Wiggins got involved in cocaine. Arrests and team
suspensions followed, one right after the other. He got traded from team to team, his skill
disappearing. He failed team drug tests. Eventually, nobody wanted him. He was no longer a star
ballplayer, he was just a junkie. And then doctors discovered that Alan Wiggins had AIDS. In
January 1991, just twelve years after the start of a promising career, thirty-two year old Alan
Wiggins died." (From "They Dared Cocaine---And Lost," Reader's Digest, July, 1992, p.
55-61)
One can say of drugs what was said of alcohol in Prov. 23:32 "At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper." Let us, by all means, be wise enough to avoid both drugs and alcohol.