Former OWN TV host Dr. Laura Berman is educating parents about the slang and emojis teens are using to secretly talk about drugs after losing her 16-year-old son to an overdose during the pandemic.

Dr. Laura Berman, a renowned relationship therapist, lost her son Sammy in February after he connected with a drug dealer on Snapchat and bought Xanax that was laced with fentanyl without his knowledge.   

In the wake of his death, the 51-year-old has been using her platform to raise awareness for teen drug use by sharing

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On Tuesday, she posted a compilation of drug-related slang words kids use to talk about everything from cocaine to methamphetamines. 

According to the list, 'school bus' stands for a two-milligram Xanax bar while 'dabbing' is a term used to describe the inhalation of vaporized cannabis oil.

'Every generation has its slang for drugs and as an ever-evolving language, it can be difficult for parents to keep up, she wrote. 'When I was coming of age, grass meant Majiuana. Mary-jane. But, the term "weed" only came to prominence from the mid-1990s onward.

'With the rise of crack and cocaine in the 1970s and 1980s, we were introduced to a whole new vocabulary to refer to these new party drugs,' she added. 'As these drugs came onto the scene and hit our streets, new slang was also created to describe them.' 

Berman credited the parental-control app Bark for coming up with the list, saying the company 'does an amazing job trying to keep up with current slang and emojis over on their blog for the modern-day drugs and their various monikers.' 

The grieving mother also recently shared a chart featuring the drug-related emojis that parents should know about, explaining: 'Teens today talk about drugs in a language they're fluent in — emojis.' 

According to the chart, a snowflake stands for cocaine, a pill is code for heroin, and a tree represents marijuana. 

Berman announced Sammy's tragic death on Instagram in February, writing: 'My heart is completely shattered and I am not sure how to keep breathing. I post this now only so that not one more kid die.'

She explained that Sammy was a 'straight-A student' and 'getting ready for college' when he overdosed in his bedroom. 

Despite how closely she and her husband Sam Chapman watched him, he still managed to have the drugs delivered to their house. The teen's drug experimentation ended up costing him his life.  

Berman and Chapman opened up about the loss of their son on

'Obviously, we came down very firmly, we had a zero-tolerance,' Berman said. 'We even got him a drug counselor that he met with. There was also a therapist that he met with once a week.'

She added that they 'regularly' tested Sammy for drugs, but that didn't stop him from connecting with a drug dealer on social media. 

'Laura went up to talk to him about his internship and discovered him lying on the ground on his back, passed away. Vomit coming out of his mouth in what they call the classic fentanyl death pose where the respiration slows down so much they pass out, they vomit and they choke on it,' Chapman told Oz.   

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the 

Drug dealers often add fentanyl to other narcotics, particularly heroin, to increase the potency without the user knowing.    

Berman, the former host of In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman on OWN, has three children with Chapman, with Sammy being their middle child. Her eldest son Ethan was born in 1999 and their youngest son Jackson was born in 2005.

In February, a spokesperson for Snapchat said the was 'heartbroken' by Sammy's death and was working with police who were investigating whether the app was used to purchase the drugs.

'We have zero tolerance for using Snapchat to buy or sell illegal drugs,' the spokesperson said in a statement to DailyMail.com. 'Using Snapchat for illegal purposes is firmly against our community guidelines and we enforce against these violations.

'We are constantly improving our technological capabilities to detect drug-related activity so that we can intervene proactively. We have no higher priority than keeping Snapchat a safe environment and we will continue to invest in protecting our community.'

However, Berman and her husband don't believe Snapchat has done enough to help them or other parents. During her interview with Dr. Oz, she recalled how she showed the police the drug dealer's Snapchat and Twitter handles and being told the information likely wouldn't help their case. 

'They said, "That's great, but don't get your hopes up because we don't even bother to call the social media companies anymore because they use the privacy and free speech laws to not give us any identifying information," she said. 

'The only thing they'll do is take the profile down and then the dealer will just pop up two seconds later within a completely different profile name.'