DDAP Releases Annual Gambling Report

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.