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HiA certain guy was explaining another guy what miners in his hometown do.He said: They take methadone mixed with OJ in a cup, it's lot cheaper than snorting oxy up your nose or banging it into your feet. And that way you don't get dinged for dirty urine and lose your miner's license.I understand they take drugs.I think "oxy" here means oxycodone.Does it say they were injecting this into their feet? I've never heard that addicts inject something into their feet.I had problems with finding the meaning of the word "dinged" but I think it means "tell somebody off".So when they take methadone, at least they're not told off by anybody that their urine is dirty and won't lose the licence. Is my understanding correct?

Sam1947 · Accepted Answer

Most of it is. Oxy is more likely to be Oxycontin. Oxycontin is a slow release form of oxycodone. It's formulation makes it easy for persons to misuse it by either pulverizing it and snorting it or dissolving it and injecting it. It gives a more powerful "hit" than traditional oral oxycodone.

Addicts do inject into their feet sometimes when all other veins are exhausted by constant injecting, or to prevent people noticing the telltale needle tracks.

Dinged in this case means to be discovered and suffer negative consequences for.

For example, one might say, "I got dinged on my performance evaluation for failing to file the X report on time."

That would mean that there was a negative reference to that performance failure, and/or that one was graded down on some part of the evaluation for that oversight.

Miners have to take drug screens. If they fail one, they can get "dinged" to varying degrees, depending on what type of drug is discovered and how many times they have failed one in the past. They might just get a warning and be required to participate in a drug program, or, they might get fired. Any of those things would constitute being "dinged" as a result of failing the drug screen.

Hope this helps!

Clive · Answer

Hi,

A certain guy was explaining another guy what miners in his hometown do.

He said: They take methadone mixed with OJ in a cup, it's lot cheaper than snorting oxy up your nose or banging it into your feet. And that way you don't get dinged for dirty urine and lose your miner's license.

I understand they take drugs.

I think "oxy" here means oxycodone.

Does it say they were injecting this into their feet? I've never heard that addicts inject something into their feet. I've read of people injecting it between their toes, to conceal the needle marks. Poor people.

I had problems with finding the meaning of the word "dinged" but I think it means "tell somebody off".

So when they take methadone, at least they're not told off by anybody that their urine is dirty and won't lose the licence.

Is my understanding correct? 'Ding' is basically to suffer minor damage.

eg In the parking lot, somebody dinged my car when they opened their car door. The term is used more metaphorically to indicate someone has gotten into relatively minor ( not 'miner'! Ha-ha! )trouble, eg I got dinged $100 for speeding.

Losing your mining licence does not seem like a minor matter to me, but the writer is presumably using understatement.

Clive

Newguest · Answer

Thank you for these very informative answers, guys!

Sam1947 · Answer

I agree with Clive that it would be unusual to use "dinged" to indicate as severe a repercussion as losing one's license would be.

It is used, as he says, more commonly for relatively minor repercussions or events, such as the car analogy.

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