Jason Snyder • October 3, 2025

DDAP Releases Annual Gambling Report

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Jason Snyder

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October 3, 2025

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The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) has released its Compulsive and Problem Gambling Annual Report, highlighting prevention and treatment efforts for state fiscal year (SFY) 2024/25.

This year’s report reflects continued progress in connecting Pennsylvanians to help and expanding prevention outreach across the Commonwealth.


Highlights include:

  • Continued growth in texts and online chats to the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline;
  • Increased admissions to problem gambling outpatient treatment programs — up 24 percent from the previous year;
  • Forty-one county drug and alcohol offices engaged in prevention programming — a 21 percent increase from the prior year; and
  • Nearly 820,000 Pennsylvanians reached through prevention programming — a 28 percent increase from the prior year.


Read the full report.

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