He's the brother of Mark and Donnie Wahlberg, one of the stars of television's reality TV show "Wahlburgers" and the author of "The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction and Redemption."

In today's 21 News podcast, Jim Wahlberg talks about his battles with addiction, the understanding it took to get society through the peak of the opioid epidemic in 2017 and the fear that the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic will lead to a resurgence in drug use in society in the near future.

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