Well, the "Night Howlers as drugs" thing is mostly due to it sharing elements with a real drug, crack cocaine, and how there are also "conspiracies" of how the rise of crack was due to the government allowing the drug to flood minority communities. It can be seen with this video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nMmC3… But yes, I WOULD change the properties of the Night Howlers so that it's more in line with actual drugs, even if it's not outright called a "drug" so it can get past the censors (the way the depiction of beer in some series is renamed 'soda/milk/water', while still portraying the symptoms of alcohol intoxication). I would show elements such as addiction/withdrawal, and that it's something consumed for self-use, NOT shot via dart gun by "bad guy government agents" to frame people. It would reinforce the idea of choices (i.e. people are choosing to sell it, and people are choosing to consume it), and while it would probably take into account some social pressures making selling/taking drugs seem like the "good" choice or "only" choice, it would prove it's NOT the right choice.Likewise, I would make sure racism isn't something that's "Mindless", and I wouldn't have Bellweather be the "mastermind of the conspiracy" - if anything, I probably would keep your third-act twist of her using the tame collars on all predators regardless of whether or not they went feral as her reaction to the conspiracy, since the ability for predators to go feral by their own choice would make her overreact, and prevent any predator from going feral, whether or not they were actually choosing to do so.