The December death of 22-year-old Colorado State University student Bennett Nicholas Bertoli adds to mounting evidence that methadone has emerged as a recreational drug. By itself, the drug doesn’t appear to be a major threat to the college-age population as a whole—it doesn’t produce a powerful high and is generally harder to get than other opiates, so it’s an unlikely candidate for widespread abuse. But it seems to be one of the newer additions to the list of prescription drugs college students take illegally.