20% of NYers are binge drinkers

Sober up, New York!

More than 1.2 million Big Apple re𓄧sidents are getting rip-roaring drunk, a shocking new city health survey has found.

One in five city adults (ages 18 and 🐻up) engaged in “binge drinking” in the previous 30 days, the study obtained by The Post reveals. That means five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitti☂ng for a man, and at least four for a woman.

That’sꦚ up from 2011, when 18 percent, or 1.1 million city adults, got 🉐trashed.

And a majority of New Yorkers — 56.7 percent or nearly six in 10 — had at least one drink over the prior 30 days, according to the 2012 Community Health survey. That’s 3.56 million pe🐽ople, also a slight increase over the prior year.

Some 364,000 city residents are considered “heavy drinkers” — men who have two or more drinks daily and women who have at 🙈least one a day.

But there’s a huge gender gap. More than one in four guys (26.7 percent) are binge drinkers, compared with one in seven women (✤13🦩.7 percent).

S♔ome of the city’s bustling Manhattan neighborhoods are hangover havens: one-third of adults in Che💟lsea/Greenwich Village and Union Square/lower Manhattan are binge drinkers.

And nearly three in 10 resident𓂃s on the Upper East Side/Gramercy and East Harlem (29 percent and 27 percent, respectively) got blitzed.

Folks in a few neighborhoods stood out as relative teetotalers. Fewer than 10 percent of residents in Brooklyn’s𝔍 Borough Park and Northeast Queens (Bayside/Little Neck/Fresh Meadows) were boozers. Those communities have many residents whose faith forbids or discourages social drinking.

Substance-abuse counselors warn that the uptick is alarming be🔜cause alcohol, if abused, can lead to other risky and self-destructive behaviors. Unlike other drugs, though, alcohol is ingrained in the culture, legal and widely accessible.

“Drinking alcohol is socially acceptable. I💫t’s legal. It’s cathartic. It’s used for celebration. It’s used for sorrow. Drinking alcohol has become mainstream behavior — and it’s big business,” said Lu💧ke Nasta, director of Camelot Counseling Centers.

Health officials also warn that excessive drinkဣing is linked to many medical and societal problems, including heart, liver and sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, depression, dementia a🌠nd domestic violence.

Alcohol is a factor in nearly half of the city’s homicides, 28 percent of auto fatalities and one in 10 hospitalizations, city 💦data show.