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The questionnaire captured telemedicine facilitated medication for opioid use disorder (TMOUD) practices, priorities, and barriers. Responses were summarised overall and stratified by World Bank country-income group and by current TMOUD availability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Sixty-eight experts from 37 countries, 32% from low\/middle-income countries (LMICs), participated. General TM use rose from 57% before COVID-19 to 94% in 2024. TMOUD was available in 26 jurisdictions (38%), more often in high-income than LMIC settings (58% vs 11%). Barriers to prescribing were identified, and few settings reimbursed video and telephone consultations equally. Improving treatment retention (69%), reducing missed appointments (62%), and expanding medications to underserved (60%) or remote (57%) populations as top priorities, yet fewer than 40% reported that TMOUD was currently used to meet those goals. Key barriers were inadequate policy support (60%), lack of professional guidance (63%), restrictive regulation (48%), poor digital infrastructure (broadband 29%; e-prescribing 56%), and limited clinician training (54%); almost every barrier was more common in LMICs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>TMOUD remains uneven and concentrated in high-income countries. Updated clinical guidance, digital connectivity investment and interoperable e-health systems, and targeted workforce development, particularly in LMICs, are needed to realise TM's potential for equitable and effective treatment of opioid use disorder. 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