An Asheville wellness business owner is facing 10 felony charges after investigators say she diagnosed clients, forged prescription records, and distributed injectable substances she claimed were the GLP-1 weight-loss drug tirzepatide — at doses that, according to the arrest warrants, exceeded the drug’s FDA-approved maximum. At least one client paid over $5,000. Another paid over $3,000. And as of this week, multiple additional victims have come forward — while the business remained open.
Priscilla Ann Hendrix, owner of Blackford Wellness in Asheville, was arrested on July 8 and charged with five counts of practicing medicine without a North Carolina license and five counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, according to WLOS News 13’s investigation. The follow-up patient reaction story published Tuesday by WLOS News 13 confirmed that former clients are now reporting losses in the thousands and questioning what was actually inside the syringes they received.
Warrant Details Point to Doses Above the FDA-Approved Ceiling
The arrest warrants allege that Hendrix diagnosed, prescribed, and distributed tirzepatide to two clients across five transactions between July and September 2025, collecting a total of $1,095 in payments ranging from $195 to $255 per visit.
The amounts specified in the warrants are 10 milligrams, 15 milligrams, and 30 milligrams. Tirzepatide, sold under the brand names Mounjaro (for diabetes) and Zepbound (for weight loss), is FDA-approved in doses ranging from 2.5 milligrams to a ceiling of 15 milligrams per weekly injection. The 30-milligram amount in the warrants is double that ceiling — meaning that if clients did receive the substance they were told they were receiving, it was almost certainly not a pharmaceutical-grade, legitimately sourced product…