Klonopin

"The most popular psychiatric medication in Brooklyn, NY."

A singular psychiatrist writes The Frontier Psychiatrists (plural) newsletter. Owen Muir, M.D., is not really into pills. Some people don’t love the third-person voice I use, here, in the newsletter. It is a funny conceit in my head. Having a jaunty dance while I write makes it possible to write volumes. The other item of note? I like David Foster Wallace, and he did this silly narrator sh*t all the time—when he was writing for The Atlantic and Rolling Stone. I'm just enamored of that style for personal reasons. I'm going to keep doing it. I'm sorry if it's annoying.

In my practice, I've decided not to focus on psychiatric medication, at least not the classic small-molecule drugs. Thus, I'm writing a series where I talk about individual drugs and how I think about them. For everybody else who still practices that way, it is here for them. It is intended as advice to other prescribing physicians and nurses. I think our conversations between professionals in public are better tha…