Dr. Laura Berman speaks out after teenage son dies from apparent overdose at Santa Monica home

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) – TV host and relationship expert Dr. Laura Berman opens up about the overdose death of her 16-year-old son Sammy in hopes of preventing a similar tragedy does not happen.

“My beautiful boy is gone,” Berman wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday, which included an undated photo of her and her son smiling on camera as Berman kisses him.

“A drug dealer hooked up with him on Snapchat and gave him Xanax or laced Percocet (fentanyl) (toxicology will tell) and he overdosed in his bedroom,” the photo caption reads. “They do this because it makes people even bigger and good for business, but it overdoses and the kids don’t know what they’re taking.”

Sammy died Sunday afternoon after an “experiment gone awry,” she said, adding that he had had “the drugs delivered to the house”. He was pronounced dead at the Santa Monica home despite the efforts of firefighters who responded to the scene, authorities said.

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Berman said Sammy was a straight college student preparing for college.

“Please watch your children and WATCH SNAPCHAT in particular,” pleaded the distraught mother. “That’s how they got them.”

Her son’s death is under investigation by the Santa Monica Police Department and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Santa Monica Police Dispatch at (310) 458-8491 or Criminal Investigations Detective S. Pollnow at (310) 458-8455.