Addicts in the workplace

Over the past couple of days, I was in a training course. While the topic is unimportant, it is note worthy that the instructors were subject matter experts.
The annoying thing about it was the behavior of the female instructor. She started off by saying she hadn’t had her methadone yet and wasn’t functioning up to par. She asked if there was a dispensary anywhere near by.
She mentioned her addition over 20 times over the course of the two days. I found it to be highly unprofessional. She was unable to properly carry out her job without it.
The truth is that she was not a Heroin addict, thus necessitating the replacement. But, she was addicted to coffee. Probably more specifically: caffeine.
Am I the only person in America who thinks that our society’s celebration of coffee addiction is pathetic?
People will line up in the morning to buy the stuff on the way to work. They will bring large containers of it in with them. They will buy machines to brew it at home and a work. They will get angry when there is none available. They will force underlings to make it and demand that s/he keep it on hand for the superiors use. Tardiness is dismissed by blaming a long line of other addicts.
If this were alcohol or cocaine, no one would accept this behavior, without demanding that the person seek treatment. However, coffee is cool. Coffee is gourmet. You can brew special flavors or add special ingredients. Is this done with other drugs? Hazelnut crack?
I know that pot smokers and drinkers have fancy paraphernalia, but the coffee people have the same thing. There are fancy and special blends of alcohol, pot, coke, and designer drugs. Well there are designer coffees. But I find it very interesting that the most expensive coffee in the world is picked out of the excrement of some jungle animal.
No self-respecting alcoholic would drink “Monkey butt rum.”
I am against addictions of all kinds. I think coffee or at least caffeine should be limited to specific medicinal uses (it does wonders when added to painkillers). America needs to wake up and realize that if this were any other product, the unprofessional behaviors engaged in by its addicts, it would not be tolerated.
On the other hand, if we would just tax the snot out of it, we could pay down this national debt.