Yeah, with Osborn as a major player, they should just clear up his past and get rid of it.

You know how venom messed up Bane in Batman Beyond? Well, that started to happen a lot sooner, so he not only kicked the habit, but cleaned out the drug dealers of Santa Prisca (he's basically from the DC version of Cuba). He's not exactly a hero now, more of a mercenary (running with Deadshot and a few others in a book called Secret Six), but he does have his own personal code and he seems to respect Batman and Gotham in his own way.