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The leading cause of death among the homeless used to be AIDS.

Now a new study has found it's actually drug overdoses, usually from painkillers and heroin.

The study looked at homeless adults who were treated through the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program over a 5-year period.

The death rate from O.D.ing has tripled in the past 15 years!

The lead author of the study said:

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The CDC just released a new report that 12.5% of women over the age of 18 engage in binge drinking!

They did a telephone survey of 278,243 women and found that 24.2% of girls between the ages of 18-34 binge drank!

What's also interesting is that

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The United States has more violent deaths than any other first world nation!

A large part of that is because of how many firearms owners there are and how easy it is to access a gun, whether buying one legally or finding one in a home.

A newly released report by two leading health research institutions found that not only do we suffer more violent deaths, but we also have

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On TLC, there is a show called 600lb Mom: Race Against Time, a show about Dominique Lanoise, a single mom from Miami.

Dominique did two things, she raised her six kids, and ate non-stop.

Sadly, she passed away because she couldn't stop her eating.

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Oh no! The world's oldest woman has died!

Besse Cooper, the oldest person in the world, has died in her Georgia nursing home.

She was 116!

Yes, that means she was born in the 1800s!! 1896 to be exact.

Besse died peacefully after becoming sick with a stomach virus. She was having trouble breathing, was put on an oxygen tank and then died in her room about 2 p.m. that day.

When Besse turned 116, Guinness World Records interviewed her, asking her what her secret to long life was, and she said:

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Leona Lewis is one talented lady!

But she has a secret talent… and it's not really a talent as much as it is a sleep disorder.

She sleepwalks!

And it's apparently pretty bad, to the point where she's afraid that she'll sleepwalk out one of her windows and fall to her death!

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We can totally understand not wanting to die.

Not dying is usually the reason most people do anything they do. (Except maybe BASE jumpers and vampire hunters. LOLz!)

A man is on death row, due to die this coming January but he claims because of his

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