The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) said the Connexions service would absorb much of the work currently being carried out by school drug advisers in order to reduce duplication of jobs.
A DfES spokeswoman said: "The department has moved most drug advice work to Connexions, so there is not so much need for different advisers."
The DfES branded reports that school drug advisers were being laid off because of the removal of central Government funding as "nonsense".
"There is no question of us going soft on drugs," said the DfES spokeswoman. Carolyn Caldwell, executive director of the National Association of Connexions Partnerships, said: "We are not aware of any enhanced role for Connexions PAs around substance misuse."
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