City leaders will meet health professionals and other agencies to decide whether chemists should be stopped from dispensing methadone in Dundee city centre.
The heroin substitute has been linked to anti-social behaviour on some of the main shopping streets, including Reform Street.
They have become gathering points for patients using three city centre pharmacies to collect their treatments and both shoppers and businesses have raised concerns.
City centre pharmacists themselves have admitted that welcoming drug users can make other shoppers uncomfortable and can also make areas a focal point for drug dealers.
James Bowman, pharmacist at the Co-operative pharmacy on the Nethergate, which dispenses methadone, said the issue was a difficult one to solve.
He said: “One obvious disadvantage of having large groups of drug users in the one place is that it opens the door to drug dealers.
“If moving methadone dispensing out of the city centre ensures that as few people are attending each place as possible, then I could see some benefits to it.”
City Centre manager Sarah Craig said: “Case studies in other cities such as Dublin suggest that methadone dispensing in the city centre has the unintended consequence of facilitating a wider drug market.
“I will be calling a meeting with businesses and agencies in the very near future to examine whether the Dublin scheme would work for Dundee.”