The seventeenth issue of Dendron news, first distributed in May 1990. Contents include "Brian's forced drugging: From abusive Mom to coercive psychiatry" by Sandra Everett; the announcement of a "New Human Rights Coalition to be Launched!" known as The North American Support-In to Celebrate the Human Spirit; "'New' electroshock guidelines just recycle the same old cover up.;" "FINALLY! Media expose rips apart shock's revival!;" "U.S. government approved physically-forced dosing of prisoners with deadly mind-control drugs" by Ron Thompson; criticism of a recent Supreme Court ruling in "What effect did the ruling actually have? Would a better ruling have really made a difference?" by David Oaks; an excerpt of the final chapter of "The Looney Bin Trip" by Kate Millett; and more.