Meanwhile, Police have said they are looking into the possibility of criminal charges. Herold's voice was filled with fear and horror in emergency hot line tapes released by police Tuesday night. The chimpanzee's rampage forced Herold to stab her beloved pet with a butcher knife and pound him with a shovel. "Xanax could have made him worse," if human studies are any indication, Coccaro said. Emil Coccaro, chief of psychiatry at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In humans, Xanax can lead to aggression in people who are unstable to begin with, said Dr. Police have said Herold told them that she gave Travis Xanax that had not been prescribed for him earlier on Monday to calm him because he was agitated.
What Herold told the AP condradicts what she said in an interview aired Wednesday morning on NBC television that she gave Travis the drug in some tea less than five minutes before he attacked Nash - she even showed a reporter the mug. In humans Xanax can cause memory loss, lack of coordination, reduced sex drive and other side effects. Police have said that Herold told them that she gave Travis Xanax earlier on Monday to calm him because he was agitated. The animal on Monday attacked Herold's friend, 55-year-old Charla Nash, leaving her with critical injuries to her face and hands. Sandra Herold tells The Associated Press that she ``never, ever'' gave the drug to her 14-year-old chimp Travis. The owner of a 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee that went berserk and mauled a Connecticut woman is disputing police reports that she gave the animal the anti-anxiety drug Xanax.
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