Central Brooklyn ranks among the lowest-boozing Brooklyn neighborhoods.
New Yorkers have been on the sauce lately, with nearly 74,000 alcohol-related trips to the ER in 2009, compared with just 22,000 in 2003.
That's a 250% increase.
Alcohol poisoning, fights, falls, accidents, suicides and homicides put hard drinkers in the hospital.
Forty-two percent of adult drinkers surveyed by the Health Department admitted to binging (5+ drinks in a sitting). Eleven percent described themselves as heavy drinkers.
The article from the Daily News.
