Happy Slippers, called pisscatchers
They gave him slippers of green foam-rubber with smiley-faces embossed on the tops. The detox’s in-patients are encouraged to call these Happy Slippers. The staff refer to the footwear in private as ‘pisscatchers.’
Context
The institution's two registers in one pair of shoes: the smiley-faced foam slippers the patients are coached to call Happy Slippers, and the same objects the staff privately call pisscatchers. The gap between the encouraged euphemism and the working slang is the whole texture of detox — cheer issued to the patient, clinical reality kept among the keepers.