This morning I spent some time going over colour wheels and gathering information based on my wanted topic- mental abuse In association to substance abuse in particaicular binge drinking. I have decided to focus on this topic as New Zealand is known for its binge drinking culture (find the link at the bottom) and I am personally very interested in this topic. As a result of binge drinking, mental illness is very likely to occur due to the reprocussions (see link at the bottom of the document). This can also be said for mental illness influencing people to turn to substance abuse/ binge drinking. As a result of this focal area, I decided to look into the colours I thought would be associated to this topic. What I found is that almost every website has a different colour associated to a disorder. After looking at many website and reading through, I have decided to use the colour purple as a link to mental disorder as this colour is the main colour shown on ‘mental health foundation’ which is the main organisation helping New Zealanders with their illness. I think purple is the best colour to use as if I were to implement a health initiative involved with mental health then this organisation would be involved in some way or another. When looking at substance abuse, the colours most prominently shown were teal and silver and as a result of this, I will be using the two colours. However, there were other websites showing different colours which I found was an obstacle, butI have chosen teal and silver as I personally think the colours have a strong tie to substance abuse and when I think of substance abuse, I visualise these colours. Binge drinking is associated to green within New Zealand so for the main binge drinking sections/ lettering I will be using green as the focal colour.
New Zealand binge drinking-https://www.alcohol.org.nz/research-resources/nz-statistics
Mental disorder leading to substance abuse- vice versa- https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/health-consequences-drug-misuse/mental-health-effects
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