Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Sunday ripped the city for installing a street vending machine that caters to drug addicts by offering such items as crack pipes, lip balm and NARCAN.

“The world has turned upside down,” Bratton said on WABC 770 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable” with host John Catsimatidis.

“Instead of trying to get people away from drugs, we have policies now where we have vending machines to encourage them to stay on drugs. ‘We’re going to make it safer for you to use drugs so you can spend the rest of your life not trying to get off drugs but to stay on drugs.’”

Bratton was referring to the vending machine unveiled by Adams administration health officials in Brownsville, Brooklyn, earlier this month that offers free handy druggie items, including paraphernalia to smoke drugs, strips to test if drugs contain potentially deadly fentanyl and NARCAN to try to revive people if they overdose.

At least three more such vending machines are set to be put in other drug-infested neighborhoods, too.

“What happens when you stay on drugs? You want the next high. …You graduate from marijuana … to heroin. … That’s the problem with addiction,” Bratton fumed. “There’s never enough drugs. There’s never enough high. That’s effectively what we as a government are starting to support.”

“City after city. State after state: this idea that we will sustain your drug habit rather than try to get you off your drug habit.”

City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan defended the vending machines during the recent unveiling of the device in Brooklyn, saying they will help New Yorkers stay safer.

“Every three hours, we’re losing a New Yorker [to drugs]. And it looks like 2022 is on track to be our highest year ever in overdoses,’’ Vasan said at the time.

“We have a rising tide of fentanyl, and now we have other substances entering our drug supply, which is really putting us behind the eight ball.”

He specifically noted the increasing presence of Xylazine, a veterinary drug known as “Tranq” or the “zombie drug’’ that can leave users in a catatonic state and with conditions that eat their flesh off.

But Bratton wasn’t buying it.

The former top cop — who previously served two stints as city police commissioner, under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Bill de Blasio — added that New York’s legalization of the recreational use of marijuana is another mistake that has expanded the local illicit pot market and encourages youths to illegally light up.

“I was just in Italy for two weeks on vacation … I did not smell marijuana for two weeks … Boom! As soon as you get back to [New York], it hits you in the face,” Bratton said.

He said New York officials have now allowed the illegal market to spiral out of control. 

“They have created a climate where anything goes,” Bratton said.

“The only positive about the red cloud we had last week is that we didn’t smell marijuana,” he said, referring to the smog here caused by the forest fires in Canada.

“Kids now 12, 13, 14, 15 can get ahold of [marijuana]. It’s so readily available. If we’re selling it illegally in 1,200 shops around the city, do you think they care who’s coming in to buy it? They’re not checking for IDs. It’s a cash business. The city has totally lost control over it. The state has lost control over it.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature recently approved a law to jack up fines against illegal cannabis peddlers and make it easier to close them down, but there are now so many of the shops.

As he has in the past, Bratton blamed New York’s political leadership, particularly left-leaning state legislators who passed pro-criminal defendant laws such as cashless bail reform, for the surge in quality-of-life crimes.

“This was a system created by political leadership,” Bratton said. “Our systems have been stretched to the breaking point [and] in some instances have broken. And the only way we can fix them effectively is through political leadership.”