The Neuroscience of Addiction and Updates on Addiction Treatments
The workshop will review the biology behind the rewarding properties of drugs of abuse, how the brain changes in response to repeated drug use, thereby becoming 'addicted', the role of genetics in addiction, and the important role of stress in maintaining addiction. The presentation will conclude with a summary of addiction treatments, including cutting-edge research on a surprising new treatment approach.
Pitch Perfect: Various Perspectives on How to Get the Gig
This panel will provide insolvency professionals with practical business-development tips from numerous perspectives.
When Your Hair Has More Silver than Your Pocket: Bankruptcy Issues Involving the Elderly
This panel will discuss issues affecting the elderly in bankruptcy cases, including attorney misconduct, scams and identify theft, childrens’ mishandling of parents’ assets, wills, trusts, life estates and judgments, and reverse mortgages.
What’s So Unique About Health Care Cases? Attributes, Challenges and Solutions for Sick Health Care Organizations
This panel of health care experts will explain some of the unique features of health care cases in general by comparing notes on current operational challenges and pre-bankruptcy considerations, discussing the pros and cons of receiverships vs. chapter 11, covering specific health care-relevant provisions in the Code, and discussing sale considerations in health care cases.